It's very strange that the paladin could heal his team mates... I thought the game ran a check for same-alliance before it ever sent the data to the main server.

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That is so funny. Its a same they we can be on a team with the other faction. And some how speak with each other. Oh will looks like Blizz will have sothing else they need to fix with the new patch.

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The best part is the other side, "OMFG! HAX! TCKT A FIN GM!"

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Again, the game does have factionless co-op play in it. You can see this clearly in blizzard's own 'play' videos. Likely just a replication error to be blamed on a vendor most likely

The huge amount of data that these games generate is staggering. All the quests you have ever completed rewards selected and what not.

God bless them for not requiring a specialized program on the client side to instance with or multiples of them for raid, group, pvp, arena and what not like other games do.

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Actually, the arena flag overrides the faction flag.

So when you are arena flagged, the only check for being able to heal another arena flagged player is that they are in the same party.

Wierd bug, though.

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Maybe it's actually a 5v5 (accounts for the number of players) and Martay is Alliance, wearing one of the disguises from the Shadowmoon Valley quests? Haven't bothered looking on Armory to find out though.

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If it did happen it's kind of strange. I would think there'd be safeguards to prevent hacking in these kind of situations to prevent horde from teaming with alliance characters or allowing a party more than the set number in an arena.. not allowing more than 3 in a 3v3 for example.

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That screen shot doesnt look shopped. The whole convo, general chat, alliance speaking in common. Looks pretty legit to me.

Isnt there a conspiracy theory going around that Blizz wants to see cross faction teaming?

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Since arena overrides faction(which makes sense, if Faction had top priority, there's be no Alliance vs. Alliance/Horde vs. Horde matches), wouldn't be able to talk in party? *checks link*

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@6/Dan

Looking at the screenshot, he is definitely Horde. Bottom right, he has the Horde flying mount on a bar. And the buttons above 4 and 5 on his action bars are the Blood Elf Racials. So it's legit, at least his race/class/faction are.

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this is similar to the cross faction black temple raid that accidently happened a little while ago due to raid ID mix ups in the server, id imagine itsa more severe instance of that, and that happened pre 2.3, so this may only be partially due to 2.3

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Lol once when my group was in stromgarde we tried to get a blood elf to attack us and we tried to spam emotes on them. Then all of a sudden she started talking in our party chat and was laughing at the guy who switched to his horde to apologize lol.

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They're all horde. The other three guys are using orbs of deception and the other team is horde also hence they can talk amongst themselves. It's probably a 5x5 and they're all just messing around because either people didn't accept the queue or were afk along with deaths coupled into there.

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I can attest this bug has happened to us in 3v3 before. I believe it has something to do with once a player is dead, their slot becomes available.

We played 3v3, we killed the 1st player, then in the middle of ganking the last 2 player, we lost 1 player.

It became 2v2, then suddenly came out of nowhere a Belf Priest. I believe he is completely confused so he stood there looking at us before starting to heal but by that time we already got the last player down to 1/2 HP before we CC'ed the Priest and went on to down both player.

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It's not orbs of deception, when you use one of those it makes you look like you're wearing low level greens, the friendly alliance priest in that SS is clearly wearing season 2.

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Also, you can look the players up in Armory. I found http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tichondrius&n=Kaibaa, he's certainly not Horde.

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> but if it's an elaborate Photoshop hoax,
> it's a pretty thorough one.

You do know that community made (more or less functional) software exists to run your own WoW server, right? Such software has been made for many of the major MMORPGs, they are commonly known as "server emulators". It would be fairly trivial to setup such a server, invite your friends over, stage any kind of strange situations and take screenshots.

For this reason I always find it amusing to see someone wondering if a screenshot of WoW has been photoshopped or not. The truth is, Photoshop is not needed. There's no way you can tell if the screenshot has been taken while on official server or while on your own private server.

I'm not saying that this picture is a fake, but just by looking for clues of photoshopping is not enough to determine whether it is one or not.

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@17 While true, it seems to me that setting up your own WoW server, getting friends with the same names and classes as existing characters, emulating a realistic chat, and setting it up in an Arena is a bit more complex than just digitally manipulating ONE.

I'm not saying that getting your own private server isn't a possibility, but by considering what all of that entails, it just seemed a more reasonable alternative to propose.

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@18 - You're right, if someone wants to make a fake situation it's much more likely they just photoshop the screenshot. But in theory there are more possibilities than "it's not photoshopped so it must be real" or "it's photoshopped".

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This happened to me in BC beta when I was playing as a NE priest. I was in a practice arena and my only teammate was an undead warlock. The other team never showed up.

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